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Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864-1940) was an American painter and printmaker. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1886, Woodbury received a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and then established a studio in Boston. Although known as a painter and a printmaker, Woodbury also was interested in... more

Charles J. Connick (1875-1945) was one of the pre-eminent artists in stained glass in the early 20th century; his stained glass studio created approximately 15,000 windows in over 5,000 commissions from 1912 to 1986. Boston Public Library's collection includes 2,150 studies for these windows,... more

Charles Lewis Whipple was a noted journalist, editor, and the first ombudsperson for the Boston Globe. As a student at Harvard in the 1930s, Whipple joined the Young Communist League, carrying his radical politics with him when he joined the Globe staff in 1936 and became an active member of the... more